Posted at PSLweb.org: By: PSL Chicago Branch Chicago In Chicago, the Party for Socialism and Liberation is waging a legal struggle to defend the right for progressives to distribute political literature. The branch in Chicago is fighting an unconstitutional ordinance that the city has used for decades to prohibit and fine political speech. In April, [...]

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Posted at Constitution Party News: Marshall De Rosa’s U.S. Senate Campaign in Florida for Independence from “D.C. Tyranny” http://www.marshallderosa.com/ http://www.cpflorida.com/ Dr. Marshall De Rosa, Political Science professor at Florida Atlantic University ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy27phHLmoc&feature=related) announced his Constitution Party candidacy for the United States Senate on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Professor De [...]

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Posted by Arkady at Right Condition The race for the MA Senate special election is on and it’s a three-way race between Independent Joe Kennedy, Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley.  Invariably the old cliche of the independent “stealing” the Republican votes will surface and early discussions are already hinting that animosity towards those [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Those long-hoping, long-enduring members of the liberal intelligentsia are starting to break away from the least-worst mindset that muted their criticisms of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign. They still believe that the President is far better than his Republican counterpart would have been. Some still believe that sometime, somewhere, [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green {arty Watch: Pennsylvania Green Matt Cleveland created New Menu in 2007, because he was shocked at how many Green Party candidates either didn’t have a website, or were using free sites cluttered with unwanted advertising. He created “New Menu” to offer Green Party candidates a free website, free email, [...]

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Posted at the Times-Tribune By Ronnie Ellis / CNHI News Writer Rand Paul filed for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as a Republican but he said he comes from the TEA Party and “we’ve come to take our country back.” Paul, a Bowling Green eye surgeon and the son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, held [...]

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Press release at LP.org: Note similarities to previous administration Top 10 disasters of the 2009 Obama administration (in no particular order): 1. Cash for Clunkers 2. War escalation in Afghanistan 3. Giant government health care expansion bill 4. Post office loses money hand over fist 5. Stimulus package 6. Expansion of "state secrets" doctrine 7. [...]

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The comment period ended on a ruling that lists ballot-qualified parties for Ohio in 2010, making the ruling final. The ballot-qualified parties are: the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the Constitution Party, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party and the Socialist Party.

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Excerpted from Chuck Baldwin’s latest column: Think about it: I write this trenchant column each week, in which I name names; address the salient, penetrating issues of the day; and plainly address the sociopolitical topics that affect virtually every area of our lives. I have boldly rebuked Presidents from both major political parties. I have [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Third Circuit could issue an opinion in Baldwin v Cortes at any time. There will be no oral argument, and the three judges will rule strictly from having read the briefs. Here is the Constitution Party’s opening brief; here is the state’s brief; here is the Constitution Party’s reply brief. The [...]

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Posted at Socialist webzine: Justice versus Juxtaposition The Socialist WebZine was recently headed with a multiple choice question:What deserves more political attention the right to marry or the right to adopt children?• Right to Marry• Right to Adopt• Neither, the bourgeois family unit is an outdated relicIn Sophie’s Choice, the William Styron novel that was [...]

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New at PeaceAndFreedom.org: Candidate Training for Northern California The Peace and Freedom Party of California which is the largest socialist electoral party in the United States and will be having a training sessions in Northern California on how to run for office. Read more… Protest armed DRONE attacks Contacts: Cindy Sheehan ( cindy@cindysheehanssoapbox.com) Joshua Smith [...]

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From last night’s show (warning: Maddow spends most of the segment on her introduction): Gordon was on Maddow to talk about tea parties at least one other time… Discussed on IPR here. Meanwhile, Bud Kennedy writes in the Fort Worth Star Telegram: The political “Newcomer of the Year” must be the Tea Party protester. But [...]

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Scott Williamson writes at Liberty For All: When I moved my family from Michigan to Nashville three years ago one of the decisions we had to make was where we were going to live. We could have chosen to live in the heart of the action and moved to a loft in down town Nashville. [...]

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Posted at LP blog: Libertarian Joe Kennedy, running in a special election for U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, appeared December 22 in this televised debate, carried by WBZ in Boston. Visit Joe Kennedy’s website. Note for regular IPR readers: yes, we’ve covered this debate for. The news here is the LP blog reporting on it. Previous [...]

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“I am pleased to endorse Joe Kennedy for U.S. Senate in the coming Massachusetts special election. He is a principled independent whose knowledge of fiscal policy will represent Massachusetts with wisdom and integrity.” – G. Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Island; A Second Look at The Federal Reserve, Founder of Freedom Force [...]

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Story sent to contact.IPR@gmail.com by Steve H. Publisher and community activist Jonathan Narcisse announced on December 24 that he would form an exploratory committee to gauge support for a possible bid for governor of Iowa. While Narcisse is a former co-chair of the local Democratic Party in Iowa’s largest county he has not decided whether [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News. The news, but not not the write-up, was also emailed to IPR by Skyler McKinley. On December 28, Colorado State House of Representatives member Kathleen Curry changed her registration from “Democratic” to “Independent.” See this story. She would like to run for re-election in 2010 as an independent. Under existing [...]

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by Jacob G. Hornberger fff.org IPR note: Jacob Hornberger ran for the Libertarian presidential nomination in 2000 To justify the federal government’s massive post-9/11 infringements on civil liberties, the proponents of Big Government have sometimes said, “There hasn’t been another major terrorist attack on the United States since 9/11. ” I have responded with the [...]

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The Verde News reports on the efforts of Arizona’s Secretary of State to remove the Green Party from the state’s ballots in 2010, and provides details on the party’s efforts to challenge provisions of the state’s laws. Secretary of State Ken Bennett has moved to strip the Green Party of its political status in Arizona.  [...]

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